REVIEW FOR AP BIOLOGY
In order to prepare for AP Biology, it is important for you to review the material you learned in 10th grade Biology.
Doing the following will help you do that. This material will also be assigned at the beginning of the school year
for a grade. Doing this now will help you be ready for the first day of school and reduce your workload the first
weeks of school. Any new material and any questions you have from these chapters will be reviewed in class.
All work must be done by hand – do NOT do the reading guides or vocabulary on the computer.
 Ch 1 – The Origins of Life
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Compete reading guide - diagrams and sketches are encouraged
Complete vocabulary cards see attached list - diagrams and sketches are
encouraged
Answer questions 1-7 on page 18
 Ch 2 – The Nature of Molecules
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This chapter is especially important if you have not had chemistry
Compete reading guide - diagrams and sketches are encouraged
Complete vocabulary cards - diagrams and sketches are encouraged
Answer questions on page 1-8 on page 34.
 Ch 3 – Chemical Building Blocks
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Compete reading guide - diagrams and sketches are encouraged
Complete vocabulary cards - diagrams and sketches are encouraged
Answer questions on page 58.
There is a lot of new material in this chapter - we will be spending time
in class understanding the organic macromolecules.
 Ch 4 
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Origin of Life
Compete reading guide - diagrams and sketches are encouraged
Complete vocabulary cards - diagrams and sketches are encouraged
Answer questions 1-7 on page 74.
 Complete the form attached to “AP Procedures” and turn in the first day.
You will need to be familiar with all review material the first day of class
In addition:
1. Assemble a 3-ring binder that is 2” (or you could have separate binders for each semester). You may
want to set it up according to the Course Outline and labs. Some universities will want to see your lab
binder to give you credit for the lab course, so you may want to keep a separate binder for labs.
2. We suggest purchasing the AP Biology Cliffs Notes book or other review book. This is not a
requirement, but we’ve found that students find it very helpful.
3. A Summer AP SCOPE course is being offered, ask your guidance counselor for more information. I
know you can read and write. What I need to know is that you can
Summer Vocabulary
Make flash cards for the following words with the word on one side and the definition on the back. DO
NOT copy from the text book or other source. Put the definitions in your own words to receive credit! I
need to know you understand the meaning of the term, not that you can copy out of a book. Diagrams
help most people learn and are encouraged!
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Ch. 3
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inductive reasoning
deductive reasoning
homologous
analogous
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atomic number, atomic mass
isotope
half-life
cation, anion
oxidation/reduction
octet rule (rule of eight)
ionic bond
covalent bond
polar
hydrogen bonds
specific heat
hydration shell
cohesion
adhesion
properties of water
hydrophilic, hydrophobic
buffer
dehydration synthesis/hydrolysis
peptide bond
polypeptide
motif
domain
primary, second, and quaternary structure
of proteins
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chaperonins
denaturation
dissociation
nucleotide (include a diagram of the
structure)
complementary
ATP (include structure and show where
energy is stored)
phospholipid
triacylglycerol
terpene
steroid
monoaccharide (include examples)
diaccharide (include examples)
isomer
glycogen
cellulose
chitin
homeostasis
Miller-Urey experiment
primary abiogenesis
coacervate
prokaryote
eukaryote
archaebacteria
methanogen
anaerobic
halophile, thermophile
eubacteria
endosymbiotic theory